Texas A&M University Presshttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/63412015-03-31T20:50:35Z2015-03-31T20:50:35ZConnecting with South Africa: Cultural Communication and Understandinghttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1468452012-10-17T18:35:07Z2012-02-06T00:00:00ZConnecting with South Africa: Cultural Communication and Understanding
Child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Astrid Berg states in her introduction that “South Africa is a microcosm.” It is a modern nation, yet many of its inhabitants follow ancient traditions. It is a nation with a colonial past marked by periods of violence, yet it has managed to make a largely peaceful transition to majority rule. It is a nation with eleven official languages embracing a great diversity of cultures and customs, and yet it is also a land where public debate is vigorous, free, and ongoing. In short, South Africa is a place where connections are being built and maintained—both those among people with long kinship and common culture, and those that reach across historical, racial, and class divides. “The western world is undeniably more advanced in certain areas of science and economic development,” Berg states, “but in other areas it seems to lag behind and could learn from” places like South Africa.
In her work with children and infants, Berg has become instrumental in building connections with and among her fellow South Africans of all ethnicities. Based upon Berg’s 2010 Fay Lectures in Analytical Psychology at Texas A&M University, Connecting with South Africa: Cultural Communication and Understanding is both a self-reflective, subjective account and a scientific discourse on human development and intercultural communication. This volume will be warmly welcomed not only by psychoanalysts and those interested in Jungian thought and practice but also by anyone seeking more effective ways to learn from other cultures. Connecting with South Africa provides sensitive direction for those wishing to find healing and connection in a fractured society. ASTRID BERG, a Jungian analyst as well as a specialist in child and infant psychiatry, hosted the first conference on infant mental health in South Africa in 1995. Instrumental in founding the C. G. Jung Centre of Cape Town, she has also served as president of the Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts.
Foreword by David H. Rosen. 152 pp. 5 photos. 2 line art. 12 charts. Reference list. Index.
2012-02-06T00:00:00ZFinding Junghttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1468442012-10-17T18:35:10Z2012-03-29T00:00:00ZFinding Jung
Frank N. McMillan Jr., a country boy steeped in the traditional culture of rural Texas, was summoned to a life-long quest for meaning by a dream lion he met in the night. On his journey, he followed the lead of the founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung, and eventually established the world’s first professorship to advance the study of that field.
McMillan, born and raised on a ranch near Calvert, was an Aggie through and through, with degrees in geology and petroleum engineering. As an adult working near Bay City, Texas, he was lunching in a country café when by chance he met abstract expressionist painter Forrest Bess, who was ecstatically waving a letter he had received from Jung himself. The artist’s enthusiastic description of Jung as a master psychologist, soul doctor, and healer led McMillan to the Jung Center in Houston, where he began reading Jung’s Collected Works. McMillan frequently said, “Jung saved my life.”
Finding Jung: Frank N. McMillan Jr., a Life in Quest of the Lion captures McMillan’s journey through the words of his own journals and through reflections by his son, Frank III. David Rosen, the holder of the first endowed McMillan professorship at Texas A&M University, adds insights to the book, and the late Sir Laurens van der Post, whom the elder McMillan met at the Houston Jung Center in 1979, authored a foreword to the book before his death.
This is a story that sheds light on the inner workings of the self as well as the Jungian understanding of the Self. In often lyrical language, it gives the human background to a major undertaking in the dissemination of Jungian scholarship and provides a personal account of a life lived in near-mythic dimensions. FRANK N. MCMILLAN III, an author, educator, and speaker, has been active in worldwide Jungian circles for the past twenty-five years. A former board member of the C. G. Jung Educational Center of Houston and a member of the International Association of Jungian Studies, he lives in Corpus Christi.
Contributions by David H. Rosen. Foreword by Sir Laurens van der Post. 224 pp. 46 b&w photos. Bib. Index.
2012-03-29T00:00:00ZThe Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaninghttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/880252009-09-12T07:06:17Z2009-09-11T00:00:00ZThe Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning
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2009-09-11T00:00:00ZSynchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universehttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/880242009-09-22T15:01:04Z2009-09-11T00:00:00ZSynchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe
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